enxebre

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Galician

Enxebre ("genuine")

Etymology

From *ex-separe, from Latin separ (“separate, different”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

enxebre m or f (plural enxebres)

  1. genuine, characteristic; pure-bred
    Synonym: castizo
    • 1876, O tío Marcos da Portela:
      é necesario que sepiades que eu son un gallego enxebre; tan enxebre cal os do sigro dazasete, que gastaban monteira
      You mast know that I am a genuine Galician; as genuine as the ones form the seventeenth century, when they wore monteira
  2. unmixed

References

  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “parar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
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